Ibrahim > Ibrahim's Quotes

“Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane”
― Emily Dickinson

“Beauty is a short-lived tyranny”
― Socrates

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“Don’t allow your tongue to utter the fault of another person, because you are covered in faults and everyone else has tongues too. Don’t allow your eyes to fall on the faults of others. Turn away your eyes and say to your eyes, ‘oh eyes, other people have eyes too.”
― Imam ash-Shafi i

“Ask your Lord for a physician who can treat the illnesses of your hearts, a healer who can heal you, a guide who can guide you and take you by the hand.

Hazrat Shaykh Sayyid Abdul Kadir Gilani (RA)”
― Hazrat Abdul Qadir Jilani

“Peace begins with a smile..”
― Mother Teresa

“I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.”
― Princess Diana

“Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.”
― Mark Twain

“Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.”
― Mark Twain

“Historically, the language we call Scots was a development of the Anglian speech of the Northumbrians who established their kingdom of Bernicia as far north as the Firth of Forth in the seventh century. This northern Anglo-Saxon language flourished in Lowland Scotland and emerged into a distinct language on its own, capable of rich expansion by borrowing from Latin, French and other sources with its own grammatical forms and methods of borrowing. By the time of the Makars of the fifteenth century it was a highly sophisticated poetic language, based on the spoken speech of the people, but enriched by many kinds of expansion, invention and 'aureation'. Distinct from literary English, but having much in common with it, literary Scots took its place in the late Middle Ages as one of the great literary languages of Europe.”
― David Daiches, Literature and Gentility in Scotland

“I am, as far as I can tell, about a month behind Lord Byron. In every town we stop at we discover innkeepers, postillions, officials, burghers, potboys, and all kinds and sorts of ladies whose brains still seem somewhat deranged from their brief exposure to his lordship. And though my companions are careful to tell people that I am that dreadful being, an English magician, I am clearly nothing in comparison to an English poet and everywhere I go I enjoy the reputation- quite new to me, I assure you- of the quiet, good Englishman, who makes no noise and is no trouble to any one...”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“Dreams were for people who had some hope of making them come true.”
― Shayne Parkinson, Mud and Gold

“To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

“The idea of a “free market” separate and distinct from government has functioned as a useful cover for those who do not want the market mechanism fully exposed. They have had the most influence over it and would rather keep it that way. The mythology is useful precisely because it hides their power.”
― Robert B. Reich, Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few

“The question of divine knowledge is so deep that it is really known only to those who have it.”
― Idries Shah, The Way of the Sufi

“Right time, right place, right people equals success.
Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.”
― Idries Shah, Reflections

“Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.”
― Idries Shah, Reflections

“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.”
― Noam Chomsky

“Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“Aklın bütün meseleleri kavramada müstakil ve bütün müşkillleri halledecek durumda olmadığını anladım.”
― İmam Gazali, El-Münkız Mine'd-Dalal Hakikate Giden Yol

“In secret we met
In silence I grieve,
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.”
― George Gordon Byron

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Three Things
Three things cannot be retrieved:
The arrow once sped from the bow
The word spoken in haste
The missed opportunity.

(Ali the Lion, Caliph of Islam, son-in-law of Mohammed the Prophet),”
― Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams

“Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.”
― Idries Shah

“Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.”
― Idries Shah, Reflections

“You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.”
― Idries Shah

“The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.”
― Idries Shah, The Sufis

“Knowledge is something which you can use.
Belief is something which uses you.”
― Idries Shah, Reflections

“Worship in Islam is not only observance of the prescribed worship rites –Prayer, Almsgiving, Fasting, Pilgrimage –but living one’s entire life in obedience to God, doing His will and seeking His pleasure, exactly in the way He has laid down.”
― Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, Inner Dimensions of Islamic Worship

“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”
― Abraham Lincoln